before 1000;Middle English;Old Englishbedd; cognate with Old Frisian,Dutchbed,Old Saxonbed(de), Old High Germanbetti (GermanBett), Gothicbadi < Germanic*badjan (neuter); akin to Latinfodere to dig, OCS bodǫ,Lithuanianbedù I pierce, Welshbedd a grave; presumably a bed was dug out in the ground

bed

v.

Old English beddian "to provide with a bed or lodgings," from bed (n.). From c.1300 as "to go to bed," also "to copulate with, to go to bed with;" 1440 as "to lay out (land) in plots or beds." Related: Bedded; bedding.

bed

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Idioms and Phrases with put to bed

put to bed

Complete something and either set it aside or send it on to the next step, as in We put the magazine to bed at ten, or They said they'd put the whole project to bed at least a month ago. This expression, transferring nighttime retirement to other kinds of completion, was first applied to a newspaper, where it meant “send to press,” that is, start to print.
[ Mid-1900s
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